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The year 2013 will widely be known as the one in which whistle-blower Edward Snowden told us that powerful governments had pierced the cover of privacy that is so dear to us and which is at the core of free expression. The Indian government’s position, in 2011, at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), and yet again in November 2013 in another U.N. meeting, has been to demand “a multilateral body for the formulation of international Internet related public policies.” The government would like this body to be under the aegis of the U.N. “with all stakeholders and relevant international organizations in ‘advisory capacity’ within their respective roles.”
There is no denying that the current Internet Governance (IG) framework is imperfect, especially with the U.S.’s strong influence and legal proximity to IG-related mechanisms — all these need to be transformed for the Internet to become more democratic and inclusive. Given the emerging issues and the changing nature of the conflicts, and the fact that the discourse within the IG space is broken, these existing processes cannot address these concerns sufficiently. A lot of fixing, enabling and rethinking and even strengthening are required. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), is a good place to start; decentralization and renegotiating ICANN’s cozy relationship with the U.S., as rightly pointed out by the EU, are some of the steps that need to be undertaken. However, the position taken by India will only take global IG out of the frying pan into the fire, from the “influence” of one country to the control of global governments who, consistent with the U.N. Charter, will make all decisions behind closed doors, with hardly any voice for other stakeholders or participation in active, meaningful dialogue, leave alone decision-making.
While the U.N. does excellent work in peacekeeping and developing friendly relations among nations, it has severe limitations of expertise, speed, and above all, transparency, when it comes to decisions related to Internet policy.